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Art provides outlet for grief
Published: 2013.05.22 | By Christopher Clair | 10:47 AM
Published: 2013.05.22
By Christopher Clair
10:47 AM
A celebratory moment—the bestowment of the 2013 Yale Drama Series Award—is one that grew out of painful loss and honest conversation between a University of Iowa professor and a student (now alumna) of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Story
 

Helping children, adolescents find artistic voice

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2013.04.24 | By Heather Spangler | 09:36 AM
young woman drawing

Area middle and high school students’ original works of art garnered through new genres and techniques from University of Iowa art education students will be on display from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at United Action for Youth, 355 Iowa Ave. in Iowa City. Story

Christine Sneed to read from new novel May 3

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2013.04.24 | By Christopher Clair | 09:20 AM

Christine Sneed will read from her latest book, "Little Known Facts," at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Writers' Workshop alumni to read from poetry May 2

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2013.04.23 | By Christopher Clair | 10:05 AM

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Lauren Shapiro and Kevin González will read from their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Spargo to read from new novel April 24

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2013.04.23 | By Christopher Clair | 09:19 AM

R. Clifton Spargo, currently an Arts Fellow and MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from his new novel, "Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Sims to read from forthcoming novel May 1

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2013.04.22 | By Christopher Clair | 10:15 AM
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Bennett Sims, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "A Questionable Shape" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Design It, Build It, Ride It

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2013.04.22 | By Marianna Gunn | 10:13 AM

University of Iowa art professor Steve McGuire will talk about bikes when the University of Iowa Museum of Art presents the second Elliott Society Lecture of the semester on Thursday, May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Art Building West (ABW), Room 240. Story

Composers Workshop concert set for April 28

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2013.04.19 | By Christopher Clair | 10:15 AM

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will present Composers Workshop II, a free concert featuring the work of composition students in the UI School of Music, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. Story

Krueger to read from mystery series April 30

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2013.04.19 | By Christopher Clair | 10:13 AM
william kent krueger

William Kent Krueger will read from the New York Times best-seller "Trickster’s Point" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Poets Bernheim, Dombrowski to read on April 29

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2013.04.19 | By Christopher Clair | 09:41 AM

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Erica Bernheim and Chris Dombrowski will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Monday, April 29, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Russell Banks to read on UI campus April 25

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2013.04.18 | By Christopher Clair | 12:05 PM

Russell Banks, an Ida Beam Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Room 1505 of the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences on the UI campus. Story

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